NOTE: The United States District Court does not endorse, or in any way support any specific PDF software, method or company,
although we may recommend specific products we have tested if we find them to be
useful. All the
court requires is that the PDF format must be used for documents submitted to the
court for ECF. How you read PDFs, create PDFs or convert other files to
PDF is entirely up to you. There are many options in many price
ranges, but remember you must have BOTH a PDF readerAND a PDF writer to
properly utilize ECF.

A
simple converter, but easy
to install and use to create PDF documents. Pdf995 is free because it is
"adware"
(a web page will pop-up and show some advertising when you create a
PDF), but the documents you create with it are clean and free of any advertising
and will only contain the data you wish. For a
small fee you can
prevent the ads from popping up.

NOTE: The other PDF
offerings from pdf995.com ("PdfEdit995" & "Signature995") are optional and not
required.

The full version of Adobe's
Acrobat Writer
software has many useful tools and features which may help you
significantly. A worthy investment if you plan on doing a lot of
PDF work, especially with scanned documents.

NOTICE: Docketware.com appears to
have gone out of business as their website is offline and
emails to them bounce, but it is still possible to purchase their
software
HERE. Please note that as of January 2005, there appears to be no support from this
company for any of this software and the court does not endorse or
support any of Docketware's products or services in any way.